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The amount of matter in a mineral, or any other substance, is measured as its mass.
By heating: transformation in a gas.By cooling: transformation in a solid.
Simple, Mineral matter is the mineral content shown in soil assays. Minerals like CaCO3 (calcium carbonate) etal.
A mineral is a solid that comes from IN-ORGANICmatter. :)
Yes!
No, much of it is mineral matter.
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A cm (centimetre) is a measure of distance, not volume. As a result, there can be no matter inside 1 cm of the mineral.
Soil is not a mineral. Soil is just matter that plants thrive in to retrieve minerals. Soil CONTAINS minerals, but soil is not a mineral.